Heading to Alice Springs then Katherine, does anyone know a good Autu Electrician that can fit an in dash gps system. I tried one in Horsham but he couldnt finish it, didnt know how to do the steering wheel harness. Its for a Fiat Ducato
cheers. Kevin.
Gus1949 said
03:04 PM May 27, 2019
We use Google Maps on our phone, you don't need the mobile network so if your out of range it doesn't matter. Maps are updated continually so no going to a dealer to get updates or incur the charge. In the next few years new cars wont have GPS units, the car will rely on Google Maps Blue toothed from your phone and displayed on the vehicles info screen.
Whenarewethere said
04:09 PM May 27, 2019
With cameras being trialed looking through windscreens to fine drivers touching mobile phones, makes no difference that it is being used as a GPS. I would get a dedicated GPS so there is no chance of a fine and loosing your licence.
Dougwe said
10:07 PM May 28, 2019
Gus1949 wrote:
We use Google Maps on our phone, you don't need the mobile network so if your out of range it doesn't matter. Maps are updated continually so no going to a dealer to get updates or incur the charge. In the next few years new cars wont have GPS units, the car will rely on Google Maps Blue toothed from your phone and displayed on the vehicles info screen.
Gee, I look forward to that day Gus. I too use Google maps and the sound is to the car via bluetooth but not the pic.
Chris61 said
08:32 PM May 29, 2019
Whenarewethere wrote:
With cameras being trialed looking through windscreens to fine drivers touching mobile phones, makes no difference that it is being used as a GPS. I would get a dedicated GPS so there is no chance of a fine and loosing your licence.
If you have phone mounted in a cradle you won't get a fine. You should be setting you GPs in the phone while you are stopped anyway
Chris61 said
08:40 PM May 29, 2019
Kevin 1955 wrote:
Heading to Alice Springs then Katherine, does anyone know a good Autu Electrician that can fit an in dash gps system. I tried one in Horsham but he couldnt finish it, didnt know how to do the steering wheel harness. Its for a Fiat Ducato
cheers. Kevin.
I fitted an Android based in dash unit in my Iveco. I use Sygic, an offline based GPS that works seamlessly with Wikicamps. I have a Samsun S8 and they both work almost the same, only one learning curve.
p.s. If you don't hook up the steering wheel controls, you may get fault codes come from the computer system of the Fiat, not a big deal, just annoying.
jegog said
10:03 PM Jun 28, 2019
I use an iPhone which displays the map on the car console through Apple's Car Play. The phone sits in the centre console as Car Play also allows hands free phone answering and playing my music from the phone.
You must have a phone service with mobile data to set up and start, and if you lose your mobile service do not stop and turn off your ignition as when you turn the ignition back on again it wants to reload the map. It will still track but you will not see a map until you get mobile data back again.
But fiddling with a GPS is exactly the same as fiddling with a phone as far as the law is concerned.
Heading to Alice Springs then Katherine, does anyone know a good Autu Electrician that can fit an in dash gps system. I tried one in Horsham but he couldnt finish it, didnt know how to do the steering wheel harness. Its for a Fiat Ducato
cheers. Kevin.
With cameras being trialed looking through windscreens to fine drivers touching mobile phones, makes no difference that it is being used as a GPS. I would get a dedicated GPS so there is no chance of a fine and loosing your licence.
Gee, I look forward to that day Gus. I too use Google maps and the sound is to the car via bluetooth but not the pic.
If you have phone mounted in a cradle you won't get a fine. You should be setting you GPs in the phone while you are stopped anyway
I fitted an Android based in dash unit in my Iveco. I use Sygic, an offline based GPS that works seamlessly with Wikicamps. I have a Samsun S8 and they both work almost the same, only one learning curve.
Check out my blog page, may help a bit.
https://chrisanddiannesultimaadventure.wordpress.com/my-rig/2014-iveco-50c21/in-dash-entertainment-system/
p.s. If you don't hook up the steering wheel controls, you may get fault codes come from the computer system of the Fiat, not a big deal, just annoying.
I use an iPhone which displays the map on the car console through Apple's Car Play. The phone sits in the centre console as Car Play also allows hands free phone answering and playing my music from the phone.
You must have a phone service with mobile data to set up and start, and if you lose your mobile service do not stop and turn off your ignition as when you turn the ignition back on again it wants to reload the map. It will still track but you will not see a map until you get mobile data back again.
But fiddling with a GPS is exactly the same as fiddling with a phone as far as the law is concerned.